Psychoanalysis Books
Confessions from the Couch: Psychoanalytical Notions Illustrated with Extracts from Sessions
The unconscious? The Oedipus complex? The castration complex? Neurosis? The objet a? What are they? And what does one say to an analyst? What happens during an analysis?
For those asking... (more)
Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex
Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex examines the progressive construction of the notion of paternal function and its central relevance in psychoanalysis.The distinction... (more)
Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement
Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Attachment and Loss in Retirement explores the ambivalence the therapist may feel about letting go of a professional role which has sustained them.... (more)
The Logics of Madness: On Infantile and Delusional Transference
In this book, Salomon Resnik describes his psychoanalytic work with psychotic patients and the logic that underlies their often-delusional constructions. He explores how the concept of psychosis has... (more)
Image, Sense, Infinities, and Everyday Life
Image and sensing have been underrated in Western thought but have come into their own since the Romantic movement and have always been valued by poets and mystics. Images come in all shapes and... (more)
Tea with Winnicott
Donald Winnicott is currently the most popular author in contemporary psychoanalysis. His writings are cited in bibliographies even more frequently than those of Sigmund Freud. And yet how many... (more)
The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor
The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi, first published in 1993, was one of the first books to examine Ferenczi's invaluable contributions to psychoanalysis and his continuing influence on contemporary... (more)
Attacks on Linking Revisited: A New Look at Bion’s Classic Work
This book aims at providing further contributions inspired by Bion's paper Attacks on Linking (1959) by a distinguinshed group of scholars who have focused on different aspects of his... (more)
On Freud's ''Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning''
This book is a collection of papers by leading contemporary psychoanalysts who comment on the continuing important relevance of Freud’s (1911) paper, Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental... (more)
Freud: Second Edition
In this fully revised and updated second edition, Jonathan Lear clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have... (more)
The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant Development
The Shadow of the Second Mother explores why has there been such little interest, in psychology, social history and biography, in the important contribution that "second mothers", such as wet nurses... (more)
The Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions?
Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex is seminal to psychoanalytic theory, but often ignored because of failure to appreciate the nuances. This book seeks to demystify this fascinating topic by... (more)
The Collected Papers of Roger Money-Kyrle
Thirty-five papers from a variety of technical and intellectual journals trace fifty years of distinguished service to psychoanalysis, sociology, politics and anthropology. (more)
The Good Divorce: A Psychoanalyst's Exploration of Separation, Divorce, and Childcare
Divorce is a complicated process and not a single event. It has major life implications and must be done right. In this regard, the good divorce is an ethical divorce.
The Good Divorce does not... (more)
Psychic Suffering: From Pain to Growth
This book creates an awareness of our ‘excessive’ fear of mental pain: the ubiquitous abhorrence of inner distress functions as a gravitational force that may ultimately impede both maturation and... (more)
Between Mind and Brain: Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind
This book begins with an exploration of the relationship between mind and brain. It then examines various psychoanalytic models of the mind and moves to the task of the analyst to discover the... (more)
Inquiries in Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers of Edna O'Shaughnessy
The papers of Edna O'Shaughnessy are among the finest to be found in psychoanalytic writing. Her work is unified not so much by its subject matter, which is diverse, but by her underlying... (more)
Man's Picture of His World and Three Papers
This new edition of Roger Money-Kyrle’s classic work is published together with three of his late papers, ‘Cognitive development’, ‘The aim of psychoanalysis’, and ‘On being a psychoanalyst’. Its... (more)
Analysis of the Incest Trauma: Retrieval, Recovery, Renewal
Childhood sexual abuse within the family of origin and society's institutions, such as the church, education, sports, and the world of celebrity, has been neglected as a significant issue by... (more)
Formless Infinity: Clinical Explorations of Matte Blanco and Bion
In contemporary psychoanalysis, a key concept and aim of clinical practice is to distinguish the boundaries of any mental state. Without this boundary-setting, the patient has nothing but the... (more)
Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond
Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond outlines the value of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the body and its vicissitudes and for addressing these in the context of... (more)
Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders
In this edited volume, Jean Petrucelli brings together the work of talented clinicians and researchers steeped in working with eating disordered patients for the past 10 to 35 years. Eating disorders... (more)
Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Theory of Instincts
Originally published in 1970, this volume describes in condensed but detailed form Freud's development of the theory of instincts. As is well known, Freud reformulated and amplified his theory of... (more)
Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Theory of Dreams
It is generally accepted that among Freud's many contributions to the understanding of the normal and abnormal aspects of mental functioning, The Interpretation of Dreams stands alone and above all... (more)
Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts: Four Volume Set
This 4-volume set, originally published between 1969 and 1970, traces the basic psychoanalytic concepts evolved by Freud. Each volume takes a single theme in Freud’s thought and gives a concise but... (more)
Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice: Fifth Edition
It is difficult to improve on a classic, but the fifth edition of Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice does just that, offering the updates readers expect and a deft reorganization that... (more)
Finding the Body in the Mind: Embodied Memories, Trauma, and Depression
Since the 1990s many different scientific disciplines have intensified their interest in the so called 'mind-body-problem': psychoanalysis, philosophy, academic psychology, cognitive science and... (more)
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies: Volume 2: Mainly Foundation Matrices
The social unconscious is vital for understanding persons and their groupings, ranging from families to societies, committees to organisations, and from small to median to large therapeutic groups,... (more)
The Analytic Field and its Transformations
The Analytic Field and its Transformations presents a collection of articles, written jointly by Antonino Ferro and Giuseppe Civitarese in recent years, all revolving around the post-Bionian model of... (more)
The Pioneers of Psychoanalysis in South America: An Essential Guide
A guide to the seminal ideas and practices of the South American psychoanalysts who made theoretical and clinical contributions to psychoanalysis. (more)